Background and Objectives: Medical error/malpractice is becoming a global healthcare problem bringing ever increasing number of physicians before the courts, and posing significant costs to the health system. Statistical analysis of the nature of complaints can help identifying the most vulnerable medical practices and thereby guide development of preventive strategies. This study surveyed comp...

Going beyond Enlightenment critiques of ancien régime justice, historians are now exploring its distinctive procedures; courtrooms have become a fundamental site for recapturing early modern political and social dynamics. Historians of science and medicine can benefit too. Serving as expert witnesses was prominent among the activities of medical practitioners; and, especially in Continental Eur...

Background: Today, despite the efforts of the medical community and health staff, the rate of dissatisfaction and complaints among patients is increasing and this highlights the importance of evaluating its related factors. The aim of this study was to analytically investigate complaints against ophthalmologists which were referred to the Legal Medicine Organization of Iran in Tehran during 201...

Going beyond Enlightenment critiques of ancien régime justice, historians are now exploring its distinctive procedures; courtrooms have become a fundamental site for recapturing early modern political and social dynamics. Historians of science and medicine can benefit too. Serving as expert witnesses was prominent among the activities of medical practitioners; and, especially in Continental Eur...

Medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. Physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. In addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...

1. Read?Letter dated Kolhapur, 21st August, 1917, from Sub-Assistant Surgeon Raghunath Vaman Bapat, stating that an Ayurvedic medical school has been started in Kolhapur; that the promoters of the same desire to impart elementary knowledge of western medicine to tlieir students, and have asked men practising western medicine whether they would undertake to coach their students in the elementary...

A lthough it is impossible to measure with much Precision the extent of defensive medicine, the evidence summarized in Chapter 3 implies that it is neither a trivial nor a major contributor to health care costs. This chapter examines how different approaches to reforming the medical malpractice system might affect the frequency of defensive medicine. The chapter examines the potential for tort ...

First submission on 02/04/13; last submission on 16/06/13; accepted for publication on 17/06/13; published on 20/08/13 1. Master’s in Pathology by Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); pathologist at LAPAC. 2. Graduate student in Medicine at UFMG. 3. Master’s in Infectology and Tropical Medicine by UFMG; professor at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). 4. Pathologist at Centro de ...

Coloma Tiron , Oscar Campuzano , Alexandra Pérez-Serra , Irene Mademont , Monica Coll , Catarina Allegue , Anna Iglesias , Sara Partemi , Pasquale Striano , Antonio Oliva , Ramon Brugada * a Cardiology Service, Hospital Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain Cardiology Department, Hospital of Palamós, Palamós, Spain Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona-IDIBGI, Unvers...

Many medical, ethical, legal and political issues have been raised by legislation in California removing criminal penalties for the medical use of marijuana. The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) has taken an addiction medicine perspective on the use of marijuana as medicine in an effort to create a neutral framework for dealing with these issues. As part of this perspective, CSAM...